There are strategy sessions and focus groups and smarty-pants consultants with their pie charts and bar graphs.

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More presentations, more PowerPoints, a whole worldwide web of talking heads wielding bar graphs and reasoned argumentation and an overarching message of impending doom.

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Beyond simply adding some variety to your daily bar graphs, monitoring the depth of your slumber is also key to the success of the Smart Alarm.

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Instead of poring over pages of reports if I can see the data in bar charts, line graphs, pie charts or integrated with geo-spatial tools, I can make a lot more sense of it.

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